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A ‘Double Engine’ in India That Will Join 2047 With 1947
I never could decipher why a football team in America came to christen themselves the ‘San Francisco 49ers’. But why we Bharatis could now be called the 47ers, I have come to understand. The reason is...
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The Terminator’s Vision of AI Warfare Is Now Reality
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of James Cameron’s classic sci-fi movie The Terminator. Cameron initially wrote the script as a way of processing the trauma of growing up in a...
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In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight
Twenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away. Not long after developers started trumpeting the city of...
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Private Equity Is Set to Profit Off a Border Crackdown
Private equity firms now hold contracts at nearly two-thirds of the country’s ninety federally designated immigration detention facilities, according to new research shared with us — meaning opaque,...
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The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die as “unintended” bycatch in reckless fishing operations or lose their lives to...
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Imperialist Geostrategy Driving the Resurgence of the Proxy War in Syria
Veteran journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar unpacks the geopolitical strategy of the foreign powers instigating the resurgence of violence in Syria.
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As Civil War Heats Back Up, U.S. Troops Are Still Deployed in Syria
A rebel blitzkrieg against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in northwestern Syria reignited that nation’s dormant civil war last week, when a coalition of militant groups united behind Hayat Tahrir...
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Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S....
Amnesty International has released a landmark report that concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so. The nearly...
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Renditioning Dissidents: Kenya’s Secret Service To Empire Goes Retail
A clandestine network of spies, a fabricated rendezvous, a carefully orchestrated kidnapping, the misuse of counter-terrorism operatives, a miscalculation of a flailing autocracy, and the alleged...
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The End of Pluralism in the Middle East
A truly seismic change in the Middle East appears to be happening very fast. At its heart is a devil’s bargain – Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and...
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How a Local Housing Campaign Won Pro-Tenant Reforms By Recruiting Homeowners
If organizers learn anything from election results this year — and potentially any year — it might be a reaffirmation of the need for groups to work together in advancing progressive priorities. A...
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“Nothing Like Before” — China Is Out-Competing The West On EVs
The past year has seen a concerted effort by Western politicians, regime intellectuals, and media stenographers to accuse China of “overcapacity”. The coordinated narrative has accompanied a...
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Greenwashing Denmark’s Big Farmers
Denmark’s parliament recently passed a so-called tripartite green deal, agreed between the agricultural lobby, trade unions in the agricultural and food sector, and the Danish Society for Nature...
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Appeals Court Upholding TikTok Ban Is a Grim Sign for Press Freedom
Donald Trump is just weeks away from returning to the White House, and when he gets there, it is all but assured that he will attack press freedom (FAIR.org, 11/14/24; NBC, 12/4/24). But the will and...
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Why Iran can’t Stand up for the al-Assad Government: Russia isn’t Offering...
The strategic situation in Syria is dire for the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad. Typically in military history, if an invader takes the capital of the other country, it secures its victory....
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Israeli Historian Produces Vast Database Of War Crimes In Gaza
An internationally recognised Israeli historian has concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting a litany of war crimes committed...
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Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration
A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-status families are expecting to be separated, DACA...
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The Public Life of Noam Chomsky
He had a disarming frankness, a toothy grin, a dazzling mind that never rested. He always felt completely out of tune with the world. At ten, he published his first article (in the school paper) – a...
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The DOGE is a Scam Designed to Protect Other Scammers
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a classic Orwellian institution. It isn’t a governmental department, nor is it designed to promote efficiency. A genuine executive department would...
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Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Has Fallen in Syria. How Will This Impact An Already...
The swift and unexpected fall of the Syrian capital, Damascus, to Sunni opposition forces marks a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East. Bashar al-Assad’s regime had withstood more...
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